Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
GUWAHATI, Lapses have been detected during the 2010-2011 survey conducted by the Population Research Centre in Guwahati. The survey report shows low percentage of Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) registration compared to the total number of pregnant women. According to sources in the Population Research Centre, only a mere 44.11 per …
JAIPUR: The state government has identified 20 districts as focus districts to provide quality medical facilities for reducing infant mortality rate in the state. Most of the focus districts are situated in western Rajasthan including Jaisalmer, Barmer and Jodhpur. The other districts are Pali, Sirohi, Udaipur, Dungarpur, Pratapnagar, Banswara, Chittorgarh, …
To take Mayawati's government head-on on farmers issue, state Congress would organise a massive Kisan Maha Panchayat in or near Bhatta-Parsaul in Greater Noida under the leadership of party general secretary Rahul Gandhi before June 25. ''UP Congress would hold chaupals at all the villages which are affected due to …
They blame each other for failure of a Centrally sponsored programme The Department of Health and the Bruhut Bangalore Mahangara Palike (BBMP) are embroiled in a blame game over poor response to a Centrally-sponsored free health camp. While the department has accused the Palike of failing to create adequate awareness …
Concerned over the high maternal and infant mortality rate in the country, the Centre on Wednesday launched an ambitious programme to provide free services to pregnant women for deliveries and neo-natal care, if needed, up to a month after birth. The facility will be available to all women in government …
With a view to providing all required healthcare facilities to pregnant women and infants free of cost, UPA and National Advisory Council chairperson Sonia Gandhi launched an ambitious scheme, Rashtriya Janani-Shishu Suraksha Karyakram here today. Patterned on the Janani Suraksha Yojana already operational in Haryana, the scheme has been adopted …
The Government of India set up the ‘Health Survey and Development Committee’, popularly known as the ‘Bhore Committee’ in 1943 to draw up the scheme of health services for the newly emerging independent India. The recommendations made by the committee remain a landmark in the development of health services in …
Representatives of government institutions at a meeting on new initiatives in community health in Rajasthan at Swasthya Bhavan here on Monday said health care delivery should be strengthened in the remote areas and free treatment provided to all sections of poor and under-privileged people in the State. The two-day meeting …
Appeals religious leaders to play role SRINAGAR, In a clarion call to the civil society in general and religious, political and social leaders in particular, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah has sought coordinated and well-knit approach to address the deep concern of female foeticide and girl child sex ratio decline in …
VASCO, Plans are afoot to set up ward sanitation and health committees in municipal areas to clean gutters, community wells and to conduct sanitation drives. If implemented, Goa would be the first State in the country to have the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) project extended to urban areas. The …
Correcting The Skew... Among suggestions made for checking prenatal sex determination are: Police presence outside suspect ultrasound clinics and hospitals An online complaint forum to allow people to inform on erring clinics Mapping of districts, identification of problem regions and analysis of data to determine causative factors Tracking sex ratio …
The National Advisory Council led by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has asked the health ministry and the department of public grievances to conduct a social audit of programmes under the National Rural Health Mission and implementation of the Right to Information Act on the lines of similar monitoring of schemes …
The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) was introduced in 2005 in 18 states of the country including Rajasthan. The main focus of the mission was to provide effective healthcare to rural population in the states which have weak public health indicators or weak infrastructure. The goals of the mission include, …
The death of 16 women admitted to a government hospital in Jodhpur for childbirth exposes the sorry state of the public health system in Rajasthan. THE death of 16 women, who had sought obstetric care, within a span of a fortnight following infection caused by contaminated intravenous (IV) fluid injection …
